Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1909: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Wilhelm Ostwald

    Chemistry

    in recognition of his work on catalysis and for his investigations into the fundamental principles governing chemical equilibria and rates of reaction

  2. Medicine

    Emil Theodor Kocher

    Biology

    for his work on the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid gland

  3. Physics

    Guglielmo Marconi, Karl Ferdinand Braun

    Physics

    in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy